Law Students’ Society (LSS) Notices
LSS General Notices
1. The L Card
You may be wondering what the new card you received with your membership keyring is.
It is an exciting new initiative with all Victorian LSSs to create one discount card to be used across Melbourne.
On Clayton campus, the card is accepted at Artichoke & Whitebait and Taste Baguette for a 10% discount.
For a full list of discounts, visit thevlcard.com.
2. Discount Comedy Festival tickets
After selling out at Perth’s Fringe World, 3 Course Comedy debuts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival featuring Monash law graduate Michael Shafar and current student David Rose.
Between them they have made two RAW Comedy State Finals, written for Cracked.com, hosted the TV show The Leak and failed Torts B.
Use the discount code ‘LSS’ for a 20% discount when booking online here.
3. Law Council of Australia Scholarships: Business Law
Each year the Business Law Section offers three scholarships of $5000 to the writer of the best papers in fields of Competition, Corporations and Taxation Law.
The scholarships are targeted to ‘early career’ legal professionals with less than four years of professional experience in the legal field of their paper. In the past winners have come from across academia, business and government sectors.
These scholarships are well suited to any Honours or research student who has previously written on a topic in one of the available fields.
Entries close Sunday 31 July 2016 at 5.00pm.
For more information please click here.
LSS Careers Notices
1. Expert Panel Seminar Series
This series will allow penultimate students to hear from partners from two different practise areas: Transactional and Advisory and Litigation.
The panels will involve a one hour question and answer format with the chance to mingle afterwards.
The Corporate Transaction Law seminar will attended by Ashurst, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and King & Wood Mallesons.
Date: Tuesday 19 April 2016
Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Location: Monash University Law Chambers, Level 1, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
The Litigation/Dispute Resolution seminar will be attended by Baker & McKenzie, Gilbert + Tobin, Herbert Smith Freehills, Allens and Minter Ellison.
Date: Wednesday 27 April 2016
Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Location: Monash University Law Chambers, Level 1, 555 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
To register for either seminar please click here.
Please note: you must be a LSS member to register, and will only be able to attend one of the two seminars. Preference will be given to penultimate students. Confirmation emails will be sent after registrations are processed.
2. Leo Cussen Seminar
Are you aware that the vast majority of law students who go on to practice law don’t actually start their careers in a top-tier graduate role? So what’s the other option?
If you’re even considering working as a lawyer then you need to be admitted and the way to do that is by obtaining your Practical Legal Training (PLT) from a designated provider. Want more info?
Come and hear more about PLTs from the Leo Cussen Centre for Law.
Date: Wednesday 13 April 2016
Time: 12.00pm
Location: Lecture theatre R6, Rotunda Building, Monash Clayton Campus
3. Herbert Smith Freehills Taste Function
Herbert Smith Freehills is coming to Monash Clayton for a meet and greet.
This is an amazing opportunity to get to know your potential employers in an intimate and open setting and there will be free coffee and pastries on offer for all attendees!
Date: Thursday 14 April 2016
Time: 3.15pm
Location: Taste Baguette, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus
4. Maddocks Seminar
Maddocks law firm is coming in for a Speed-Networking Session on Clayton campus.
Head over to W210 in the Menzies at 12.00pm Thursday 21 April to hear from HR representatives and lawyers from this top employer.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to inform your clerkship and graduate applications!
Date: Thursday 21 April 2016
Time: 12.00pm
Location: Room W210, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus
Competitions
1. HSF-NLUD International Negotiation Competition (INC)
INC is a competition organised by Herbert Smith Freehills and National Law University Delhi.
The first edition of the competition took place in 2014 and it was a big hit.
The second edition, which was held in September 2015, drew participants from 23 internationally renowned universities from five countries, including the likes of Cambridge, Oxford, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Cologne.
The competition aims at providing an opportunity to law students of select top universities across the globe to practice and improve their negotiation skills. It provides a platform for students to compete in a truly diverse and an international environment. The competition is carefully structured to simulate legal negotiations particularly for those students who aspire to be international lawyers.
Students participating in the competition will assume the roles of international lawyers in negotiating a series of legal problems. The problems will be based on real life examples and will comprise a common set of facts known to all participants and confidential information known only to the participants representing a particular side.
Each team will consist of two students, who must be enrolled in a full time degree (undergraduate or postgraduate) as at September 1 2016. Only one team per university will be allowed. The competition will begin 15 June (release of the problem), with the finals being 11 September and held in Delhi.
Please find more information here.
Education
1. Charity Dinner Ticket Sales
2016 sees the return of Charity Dinner, supporting the Tristan Jepson Foundation.
Speakers will include Marie Jepson, co-founder of the Tristan Jepson Foundation, and Prerna Diksha, who is a Board Member on the Australians for Mental Health Organisation.
Fulton Street will also be performing! All profits made will be donated to the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation.
Date: Thursday 28 April 2016
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: La Di Da, 577 Little Bourke St, Melbourne
Cost: $60 for members, $65 for non-members
Included: canapés, 2 course dinner and bar tab
Do not miss this event. For more information, please refer to the Facebook event.
JD
1. JD Office Hours
The JD LSS office hours are as follows:
Monday: 12.00pm – 5.00pm
Wednesday: 12.00pm – 5.00pm
Thursday: 11.00am – 3.00pm
During these times memberships and event tickets can be purchased.
However if these times do not suit you please contact jd.adminactivities@monashlss.com